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Antibiotics Are an Economic Failure

Social practice and market shortcomings are the bottleneck for solving antibiotic resistance; not molecular discovery.

Words by Matt Burnett

Long Read / Issue 10

How to Build a Strep A Vaccine

After decades of scientific and regulatory delays, several Strep A vaccine candidates are entering clinical trials. Without further funding for phase 3 studies, however, many will be hamstrung.

Words by Eva Amsen

Long Read / Issue 10

Metaphors for Biology: Evolution

A series of quantitative metaphors on the speeds of representative events in evolutionary biology. The end of our three-part series.

Words by Sam Clamons

Long Read / Issue 10

A Brief History of Lab Notebooks

How experimental recordings have changed, from the Renaissance through today.

Words by Ulkar Aghayeva

Update / Issue 10

That's All, for Now

We're pausing Asimov Press.

Words by Niko McCarty

Long Read / Issue 10

Designing AI for Disruptive Science

Why scaling AI won’t automatically lead to paradigm shifts.

Words by Alvin Djajadikerta

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Antibiotics Are an Economic Failure

How to Build a Strep A Vaccine

Metaphors for Biology: Evolution

A Brief History of Lab Notebooks

That's All, for Now

Designing AI for Disruptive Science

Big ideas in biology.
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